From Python Import Podcast

a small-batch artisanal podcast for irreverent pythonistas

Easy-going, conversational, often silly, and
occasionally earning our iTunes "explicit" tag,
From Python Import Podcast is
news, analysis, discussion, and general
shenanigans about the Python language
and community.
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At long last, we finally get down to some Real Talk about Python 3. In
this episode, Mike and Dave are joined by guests Nick
Coghlan and Alex Gaynor; our discussion gets into the history of
Python 3's development, why it's compelling, whether it's a failure, and more.
We also chat for a bit about Alex's new Cryptography library and the
downfall of "abstinence-only" crypto education.

All this plus some news and the return of the return of Python trivia! Read on
for some additional thoughts as well as a plethora of links for this episode.

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How are you? Doing okay? Made it through the holidays all right? Surviving
the onslaught of polar vortices? Ready to be done with winter (or whatever
season it is for you right now)? Are you excited for PyCon yet?

Yeah, us too.

We just wanted to drop you a quick note to let you know we haven't forgotten
about you. We had some scheduling issues that messed up our emerging
every-other-month cadence, and the machine that we use for editing the show
decided to go to the big computer store in the sky.

Though we are delayed, we are undaunted; in fact, we just recorded a new
episode a couple days ago that we hope to release in the next week or so (once
our hardware issues are resolved).

We've heard your feedback as well and have been taking steps to improve the
quality of our audio. We won't promise perfection, but we will pledge to
iteratively improve. (And honestly, even though the Hangout recordings aren't
the greatest, we think they're a huge improvement over some of the shows from a
couple years ago in echoey conference rooms or bar basements. YMMV, of course.)

Can you do us a favor? One thing that happened last year when we had hosting
problems was that we fell out of the iTunes store and had to set everything up
all over again, which means we lost all of our ratings and reviews, as well as
our subscription base. So we'd really love it if you could pop on over to
iTunes and give us some ratings and reviews (and heck, why not
subscribe while you're there?).

Thanks; you're super.

Have you got a particular topic you're interested in hearing about? Have
something else we should know about? Drop us a line via Twitter or on
our site's contact form and let us know! Or say hi to Mike at
PyCon and we can hang out.

So... That should cover everything for now. We'll talk again soon. Until
then, take care. Be excellent to each other, and Python on.